Schizophrenia

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Estrogen helps ease schizophrenia

From the archives of The Times of India: 2008

Adding estrogen to routine medication helped reduce the number of psychotic symptoms in women with schizophrenia, researchers said. Women given an estrogen patch in addition to their other drugs had fewer delusions and hallucinations than those who got a placebo, they said. “Estrogen treatment is a promising new area for future treatment of schizophrenia and potentially for other severe mental illnesses,” Jayashri Kulkarni of The Alfred and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and colleagues wrote in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry. During the study, the researchers found that women given estradiol, , a form of estrogen, had more improvement in their psychotic symptoms compared with the group that got a placebo.